Pomerania

Pomerania is a region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe that is divided between Germany to the west and Poland to the east. Its name comes from the Slavic phrase for "by the sea", po more, and the region was inhabited mostly by Germans until the end of World War II in 1945, when the Polish People's Republic forced many Germans to go to East Germany or West Germany as ethnically-Polish people colonized the region.